Verb
have an effect upon
press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action
be relevant to
keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
Source: WordNetThe data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know. Jerry Fodor
We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress. Mary Augusta Ward
For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me. Andrei Sakharov
The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security. Dick Cheney
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you. George Eliot
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world. Renata Adler